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2007). In regions endemic for Chagas disease, T. cruzi circulates be-tween humans and domestic animals and is transmitted by domi-ciliated triatomine bugs. However, infection by T. cruzi is primarily a highly prevalent and widespread zoonosis that occurs from the southern half of the USA to the southernmost countries of South America, in a range of habitats that include the Amazonian rainfor-Coura, 2007). Based on multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE), T. cruzi populations were distributed in the following principa